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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 549 of 653stationary, or else retrogrades, until gradually one portion of tgland becomes injected, fluctuates and breaks. The suppuration654 Constitutional Diseases without Definite Infection.generally takes place very slowly, because the decomposition of tpus goes forward step by step. In other cases, especially in individuals with sickly constitutions, a complete decomposition of thexudation takes place before the swelling discharges ; in such athe discharge indeed takes place very rapidly, but other glands aattacked so much more speedily one after the other, and the patiestrength is undermined by hectic fever. The cervical and posteriocervical glands are generally attacked first and most extensivelybut the morbid process may likewise be transmitted to every otherpart of the body. It becomes most threatening, if the mesentericbronchial glands are invaded ; in such a case obstinate and severcatarrhal irritations may set in, which are often enough followedby hectic fever and death. If scrofulosis can be suspected, everychronic intestinal catarrh, every chronic bronchitis, must necessbe traceable to a scrofulous origin.The skin is very often the first organ that shows symptoms ofthe scrofulous taint. It is but too often the case that childrenup to the time when they were weaned, looked fleshy and solid,after they are weaned, are attacked by cutaneous eruptions thatalmost always look like eczema and impetigo, less frequently likeecthyma or pemphigus ; the incrustations are generally accompanieby obstinate ulcers which constitute characteristic symptoms ofscrofula. While the exanthem, which is most commonly confinedto the head, is still out, or soon after its disappearance, the gbecome affected.The localization in the bones and joints is one of the most dangerous signs of scrofulosis. We refer to what we have said concerning the bones and articulations in a former chapter ; we wishto^observe, moreover, that the inflammatory forms run a very protracted course, and that it is only when the patient's constitutiis in a very bad state, that those forms terminate in hectic feveand death, but, on the other hand, leave the aftected joints withimpaired mobility, anchylosed and deformed. Scrofulous inflammation of the vertebrae is the most threatening, for it either leadcurvature of the spine or develops hectic fever by the originatioof congestive abscesses.Another symptom of scrofula is the ophthalmia which we havealready described in a previous chapter. It is either confined tothe margins of the lids, or involves the whole conjunctiva. Theears of scrofulous children have a peculiar inclination to dischawith eczema breaking out at the same time round the ears ; veryScrofulosis. 655seldom only, and then only if the affection is very deepinflammatory process communicates itself to the ossicula and themastoid bone.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt